Just a quick post to say hello and that I am new to this forum and to Comixpedia. And, to be honest, to this whole drawing webcomics thing, though I've been avidly reading them as long as I have had some kind of internet connection.
I am extremely bemused to find that while my site, Fit and the Conniptions, is listed at best in the 500's or 600's on other comics TopList equivalents, it appears to be rather higher than that on the Comixpedia one at the moment of posting.
I can only guess either that the Comixpedia Toplist happens to be so very new that not many people have signed up their comics to it, or, alternatively, that I have I made some horrendous newbie error at my end somehow that is artificially boosting my ranking. In the latter case, please to let me know so I can fix it.
Other than that, hi.
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Welcome to the show, Motty. :)
The only real function and/or benefit to being listed on any top list site, is to drive traffic to your comic. My advice would be to just put all those little banners on your site, forget about them, and then just have fun making your comics.
It's all about getting attention and having some fun.
Cheers. Seems like sound advice.
Thank you.
Belated howdies, and unsolicited opinions!
Less chicken! More music! And screw the people who tell ya you can't draw. Most cartoonists can't draw when they start. It's part of why we're not all doing art that hangs in the Guggenheim. The Googleheim has lower standards.
I love the band humour-- band cartoons aren't the same when drawn by people who have no idea just how irritating and ridiculous the music scene can really be. Great Musical Disasters #6 is almost too true to be funny but it came well near to sending coffee all over my monitor. #1 and #2 were fantastic in a much less 'been there' way.
A lot of it what you're doing is still kind of hit-or-miss but keep working on it, and really honing your writing down to its leanest meanest form. I'll be looking forward to seeing more.
Cheers...
Thank you, Aleph, for the kind comments and the constructive criticism.
You're absolutely right that among other things the writing needs to be leaner and meaner; it's also good to hear 'less chicken more music', as this is also the direction I want for it, but I've heard quite a bit of 'less music more chicken' so far. The band project being real, actual band members will be introduced soon (depending on how various jams and rehearsals go), so hopefully that will help fix that. As for Disaster #6, it was almost too true a story to use, but I erred on the side of using it anyway.
I will carry on and continue endeavouring to be more hit and less miss. Cheers again.
I think it's more hit than miss, honestly. That's why I felt like chatting at you about it :)
I think the reason you hear more chicken less music might just be that you haven't really found your audience yet. There are a bunch of band-type pages you could advertise on to find your niche. Flying a webpage banner or putting up a flyer in the same places you go to replace your drummer for the 982734nth time or beg for a gig that pays in something besides drinks, you know? I think people who have actually been IN music enough to know how very much fun it is to be on a bus for 6 months or having to lug gear around yourself in a van and crawl on top of it hoping nobody stops short in front of you and causes you to, you know, die, (or worse, feck up the amps) get sick of comics written by people who think music is cool and glamorous. Screw Josie and the Pussycats. Screw solving crimes, let's solve the mystery of who ran up the bar tab.
(Plus, once you attract that audience, the wannabes will flood in afterward ;) Like all the weenies wearing Zidj shirts who have no idea that's not an indie band!)
Take it from somebody who heard for the entire first year of her comic nothing but 'it's too confusing' and 'it doesn't look like most comics'-- take the comic in the direction YOU want for it, because the very same things people complain about at first will be the things they compliment you for down the road. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, you might as well not do it, because it's... well it's almost exactly as rewarding as starting a band. Toil in obscurity until you either luck out and get noticed, or grow up :-p
Comixpedia Top List Is New and Probably Still BETA
AP is absolutely right. We've never had a top list at Comixpedia and the one that we have now is a bit on the experiment side as I wrote it as an extension of the Library - not a stand alone top site like most such sites.
If it helps bring a few more vistors to your site though that's all good :)